But love entails pain — the pain of the pangs and thirst of separation while constantly burning. This gradually minimizes the strength of the ego and eventually destroys it, because love never thinks of or cares for itself. It just burns its victim in love for its Beloved. And after this burning gradually diminishes the ego and it is eventually totally annihilated, love makes its victim realize the Self.
Later that day, Dastur complained to Baba about the lack of privacy in Gyas Manzil. He had been complaining for several days, and Baba got fed up with him and several others. He ordered the mandali to vacate the Manzil — within ten minutes! — and move to Sarosh Motor Works. All their belongings were immediately removed, piled onto a truck and several buses, and taken to the workshop. Arrangements were made there for the mandali and boys' accommodations. Pleader was given a separate room the next day. Baba ordered him not to leave it and to remain on only milk and bananas.
Although Dastur was also allotted separate quarters for his office in the workshop, he was still not satisfied and was upset by the sudden shift. On 31 March, Dastur said he was going on a hunger strike.
Upset by his antics, Baba remarked to the mandali, "He himself commits faults and goes on a hunger strike! He gets upset and blames others! Fasting is good, because it reduces anger. If Dastur were to fast for 20 years, he would not even need a Master!
"A Sadguru has no necessity to fast," Baba concluded. "But if he fasts, it is for the benefit of others."
After a few days, Baba wished to enter seclusion in the forest of Panchgani Valley near Mahabaleshwar. On Wednesday, 2 April 1930, he sent Kalemama to Panchgani in order to arrange things. Until the arrangements were complete, Baba decided to return to Meherabad.